Zamina Begum famously played a role in the women's emancipation policy of her husband's government, notably by appearing unveiled in public.
[1] The Prime Minister answered by inviting them to the capital and present proof to him that the holy scripture indeed demanded the chadri.
[1] When the clerics could not find such a passage, the Prime Minister declared that the female members of the Royal Family would no longer wear veils, because the Islamic law did not demand it.
[1] While the chadri was never banned, the example of the Queen and the Prime Minister's wife was followed by the wives and daughters of government officials as well as by other urban women of the upperclass and middle class, with Kubra Noorzai and Masuma Esmati-Wardak, who is known as the first commoner pioneers.
[citation needed] She was reburied in the Deh Sabz District in Kabul along with her husband and other family members in 2009.